As with many debt crises in emerging economies in the post-war period, the euro crisis was born of the preceding boom's excesses.

同战后新兴经济体一样，欧元危机产生于前期的繁荣。

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Inflation rate is the percentage change in the price index from the preceding period.

通货膨胀率：前一个时期以来物价指数变动的百分比。

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In addition, the preceding period of steel prices, the use of steel accounted for 80% ~ 90% coating equipment manufacturing profit space.

此外，前段时期钢价高企，使钢材运用量占80% ~ 90%的涂装设备制作业赢利空间减小。

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But to be fair we spent the first week on tax, we spent the second week on a variety of subjects, it wasn't all about Europe and we did have radical ideas in our manifesto about health and education, I think the pity of it is that we didn't concentrate on those, not only during the campaign but also in the preceding period.

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However, the decline in like-for-like sales - which excludes the effect of store closures - was faster in the last three months than in the preceding six-month period.

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The popularity of the eBay app suite can be gauged from the fact that 25 million of these downloads came in the preceding six month period.

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